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March 20, 2000
Volume 52, No. 25


TABLE OF CONTENTS

CAMPUS NEWS

Avon gives $2 million to fight breast cancer

VRC team to bike for AIDS vaccine

Chace addresses health care issues

First Person: The women we come from, by Alic Crown and Alicia Starkman

Emory Profile: Brian Shaw: Another one rides the bus

President's Commission on Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/ Transgender Concerns

International cultures abound

College applications drop for '00-'01

Duderstadt predicts big changes in digital age

Human Resources: Health insurance concerns being addressed

"Selling Race" exhibit opens in Woodruff Library

President's Commission on the Status of Women


Staff Fest theme deadline nears

Submit ideas for Staff Fest 2000 by March 31 to wlauver@emory.edu. Include your name, department and phone number on your entry. The winner will receive a $25 gift certificate.

For more information, call 404-727-2242.

Goizueta to host golf tournament

All Goizueta alumni are invited to the Goizueta Gives Golf Classic tournament, picnic and charity auction on Saturday, March 25.

The day begins witha scramble format golf tournament at the Stone Mountain Golf club. A BBQ picnic and charity auction will be held following the tournament at Park Tavern (formerly The Mill at Piedmont Park). Proceeds from the tournament and auction will go to the AFLAC Cancer Center of Children's Hospital of Atlanta.

For more information, call 404-727-6938.

SCHOLARSHIP & RESEARCH

Sturtevant stars in course on Hollywood women

Berns studies language wiring in human brain


Phone problems being addressed

Information Technology Division said it is working to solve problems in the telephone lines that have produced difficulties for people off-campus dialing in or for those trying to reach the University's modem pool.

Incoming calls to campus have been steadily increasing for years, but a sudden spike in those calls has resulted in some callers getting a "We're sorry, all circuits are busy now" message. Modem pool sessions have increased by 40 percent since October, and though ITD said Emory has the most modems per capita of any campus in the country, not all of those modems have been operational recently, a problem the division said has been fixed. Finally, BellSouth has also experienced difficulties that have affected Emory's phone service.

In the short term, ITD has ordered equipment that by April 1 will increase Emory's capacity to handle incoming calls. The division is also reviewing its procedures and diagnostic activities to find other solutions.

ITD asks that the Emory community:

  • voluntarily limit the length of modem pool sessions during the peak hours from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.
  • report phone call intercepts to Telecommunica-tions' phone repair at 404-727-6161.
  • report modem call intercepts to the ITD customer support center at 404-727-7777 with your name, date, time the intercept was reached, what the intercept message said and the phone number from which the call originated.

Goizueta programs discounted for faculty, staff

Goizueta Business School Executive Education offers a 50 percent discount for all faculty and staff currently employed with Emory University for our non-degreed executive education prgrams.

For more information please visit www.emory.edu/BUS/EXECED or call 404-727-2200.

Upcoming Executive Education Programs include: Financial Skills Workshop, March 26-29, $2,995; 21st Century Brand Management, April 2-27, $2,700, Leadership 2000, May 1-5, $5,000 Value Based Management, June 6-8, $2,700.